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Challenges in Agile Project Management

Tracking projects and keeping teams on the critical path throughout the development process is one of the most important parts of successful projects and project management. Especially the more complex projects get, the harder it is to achieve this goals.

More particularly when it comes to managing agile teams and projects, having the right data at the right time is essential to see potentially critical incidents coming, before they happen:

Teams continously increasing their daily working time to reach the project goals, work overtime, on weekends and tend to be less happy and motivated

One size doesn't fit all

Every project is unique per definition. Combining project tasks and corresponding time tracking logs isn't easy in reality. Time tracking data is often saved in another system (e.g. excel sheets, 3rd party project management tools, etc.) than the corresponding issues, tasks and projects (JIRA, Gitlab, etc.).

Controlling departments spend hours, days, weeks to build complex Excel sheets which import time log data from e.g. (best case scenario) MS Access. Different projects have different needs. Over time initial simple and slim worksheets get bigger due to additional project specific requirements.

Those additions lead to complex functionality and many cross-links. The more those Excel sheets provide regarding functionality and comfort the higher is the failure potential.

Nevertheless, regardless of how many projects were completed, one Excel worksheet will almost never cover all upcoming projects. Every project manager needs additional customization, adjustments and so on.

At the end different versions of worksheets (single version of truth) make it impossible to work across team members.